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Mr. Amitabh Kant
CEO of NITI AayogMr. Amitabh Kant is currently the CEO of NITI Aayog. He is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, Kerala Cadre, 1980 batch.
He has authored Branding India: An Incredible Story (2009) and Incredible India 2.0: Synergies of Growth and Governance (2019), and edited The Path Ahead: Transformative Ideas for India (2018).
Mr. Kant has been a key driver of award-winning initiatives, such as ‘Make in India’, ‘Startup India’, ‘Incredible India’, and ‘God’s Own Country’, that have positioned India and the state of Kerala as leading manufacturing and tourist destinations. He has conceptualized the ‘Atithi Devo Bhavah’ (or the Guest is God) campaign to train taxi drivers, guides, and immigration officials as stakeholders in the tourism development process.
Mr. Deepak Bagla
Managing Director and CEO of Invest IndiaMr Deepak Bagla has a professional career of over three decades, with the World Bank, Citibank, and Private Equity having responsibilities across Europe, Africa and Asia.
He is currently the Managing Director and CEO of Invest India, the National Investment Promotion and Facilitation Agency promoted by the Government of India. Invest India is also the execution agency for Start-up India and the Prime Minister’s Science and Technology initiative.
He is a member of several High-level Government committees including Fintech, Innovation, and Infrastructure. Mr. Bagla is on the Advisory Board of the Government $7 billion “Fund of Funds for MSMEs” and the Investment Committee for the Government US $ 1.5 billion “Fund of Funds for Start-ups”.
Mr Bagla has a bachelor’s degree with Honors in Economics from St Stephens College, New Delhi and a dual Masters in International Diplomacy and International Trade and Finance from The School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC.
Dr. Dinesh Sharma
Deputy Chief Minister at Government of Uttar PradeshDr. Dinesh Sharma is an Indian Politician who serves as Deputy Chief Minister of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. He previously served as the mayor of Lucknow, the state capital. A university professor by profession, he is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and he has held various roles in the party.
Dr. Sharma's political talent was first noticed by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Like many politicians in the Bharatiya Janata Party, Dr. Sharma began his political career with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sang
Capt. Dibya Shankar Mishra
Hon’ble Minister of MSME, Industries, Home & Energy at Government of OdishaDivya Sankar Mishra is known as Captain Divya Sankar Mishra from Odisha ...Ministers of Energy; Industries; Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) and Home Government of Odisha.
Mr Satyabrata Sahu, IAS
Principal Secretary at Department of MSME, Government of Odisha
Mr. Ashish Chauhan
MD & CEO of Bombay Stock ExchangeMr. Chauhan is one of the founders of India's National Stock Exchange ("NSE") where he worked from 1992 to 2000. He is best known as the father of modern financial derivatives in India due to his work at NSE. He was instrumental in setting up India's first fully automated screen based trading system and first commercial satellite communications network. He also created several path breaking frameworks including Nifty index, NSE certifications in financial markets etc.
From 2000 to 2009, he worked as the President and Chief Information Officer of Reliance group and was also the CEO of the cricket team Mumbai Indians in its formative years. He also handled additional responsibilities as the Head, Corporate Communications for Reliance Group from 2005 – 2006.
Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami
Hon`ble Union Minister of Communications and Digital Economy at Federal Republic of Nigeria
Dr. Ashwathnarayan C. N.
Minister of Electronics, Information Technology at Govt. of KarnatakaDr C. N. Ashwathnarayan was inducted as the
Cabinet Minister in the Government led by Chief minister BS Bommai. He is currently Minister of Higher Education,
Information Technology & Biotechnology and Science &
Technology, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, and Livelihood in the Government of Karnataka. He also served as 10th Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka. He is an educationist, healthcare entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Md. Sadique Alam, IAS
Director of Industries & CEO at Startup Odisha, Department of MSME, Government of Odisha, Bhubaneswar
Mr. Simon Galpin
Partner (Former MD of Bahrain Economic Development Board) at Plus Venture CapitalDr. Simon Galpin has been actively involved in developing startup ecosystems in Asia and the Middle East. He is a partner at +VC, an early stage venture capital firm focused on the MENA region and serves as an advisor to governments, corporates and universities on innovation and economic development policy.
As Managing Director of the Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB), Dr Galpin led the transformation of the Board into a full-service investment promotion agency and as a catalyst for economic diversification and regulatory reform.
Prior to joining the EDB, Simon spent over 20 years in Hong Kong. During his time as the Director-General at Invest Hong Kong, the Special Administrative Region was ranked second as a recipient of Global FDI flows and attracted record numbers of regional headquarters. He went on to launch the StartmeupHK initiative, which helped kick-start the start-up and fintech movement in Hong Kong.
Dr. Galpin is a Doctor of Juridical Science and holds in Masters Degrees in Business Administration, Local Economic Development and International Business Law.
Ms. Aurelia Albert
Founder & CEO of Innovate DurbanAurelia Albert is the founder and CEO for Innovate Durban , an entity set up to support and promote innovation in Durban, South Africa. Her background is in economics and innovation management. Her previous work involved being the Programme Manager for Innovation at local government. Her passion lies in innovation management, social development and design thinking. In 2017, Aurelia was awarded the SARIMA award for Early Career Excellence in Innovation Management.
Ms. Ananya Chandra
Managing Partner at InnopactAnanya is Managing Partner at Innopact - an early-stage investor in high-impact technology startups across emerging markets. She also leads Women Prosperity Lab, a startup ecosystem enabler backing the future of womentech.
Previously, Ananya co-headed Accelerating Growth of New India’s Innovations (AGNIi), the flagship innovation initiative of the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. Here, she collaborated with key national and international stakeholders to promote commercialization and scale-up of innovative technologies across India.
H.E. Jaideep Sarkar
High Commissioner of India to South Africa at Government of India
Ms Sanjukta Badhai
Evangelist & GM at Startup Odisha, MSME Department, Govt of OdishaLeading the Startup Odisha initiative of Government of Odisha in promoting innovation, entrepreneurship startup ecosystem across the State. Before joining Startup Odisha in 2021, Sanjukta has worked in various capacities at KIITTBI for the last 12 years. As a COO at KIITTBI, Sanjukta was leading the incubator operation, fund management , and start-up mentoring process ensuring quality deliverables of the incubator. Program. During her tenure at KIIT-TBI, she has been able to position the incubator as one of the top in the country and among global key leaders as well. She is phenomenal in strategizing, building efficient processes, and developing best practices for successful and sustainable incubation. Before joining KIIT-TBI she has worked with NCERT, New Delhi and WNS, India office. She is a doctoral candidate at Ravenshaw University Cuttack. She has received her Master degree and MPhil in Life Sciences from Sambalpur University.
Mr. Anuj Ranjan
General Manager, Fintech Division at Reserve Bank of IndiaShri Anuj Ranjan has close to 22 years of experience across various central banking functions like currency management and has been actively involved in policy domain related to banking and non-banking regulation. He currently heads the FinTech Division, wherein, initiatives like Regulatory Sandbox, setting up of Reserve Bank Innovation Hub, operationalization of CBDCs etc. are being undertaken. He holds a Master's degree in Science.
Dr Subhrangshu Sanyal
CEO of IIM Kolkata Incubation Center
Dr. Apoorva Ranjan Sharma
Founder of Venture Catalysts
Mr. Ajay Thakur
Head SME & Start Ups at Bombay Stock Exchange
H.E. Abhay Thakur
High Commisioner of India to Nigeria at Government of India
Dr. Manish Gupta
Director of Research in India at GoogleDr. Manish Gupta is the Director of Google Research India. He holds an additional appointment as Infosys Foundation Chair Professor at IIIT Bangalore.
Previously, Manish has led VideoKen, a video technology startup, and the research centers for Xerox and IBM in India. As a Senior Manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, Manish led the team developing system software for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer. IBM was awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation for Blue Gene by US President Barack Obama in 2009.
Manish holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has co-authored about 75 papers, with more than 7,000 citations in Google Scholar, and has been granted 19 US patents. While at IBM, Manish received two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, an Outstanding Innovation Award, and Lou Gerstner Team Award for Client Excellence.
Ms. Aastha Grover
Head, Startup India Hub at Invest IndiaAastha has over 6.5 years of experience in the consulting and strategy domain. Prior to joining Invest India, she worked with HSBC Bank (Delhi & Mumbai) and AT Kearney (Gurgaon). Her experience ranges across Financial Institutions Group- working on projects from APAC and EMEA region in the domains of market entry, competitive benchmarking and innovation. As a part of the Startup India Hub under Invest India, she co-leads Alliances and partnership with corporates, countries and ministries to drive programs for startups. Aastha holds an MBA in Finance from SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai. She has been a CBSE topper and graduated from Sukhdev College of Business Studies, University of Delhi.
Mr. Tarun Chaturvedi
Sr. VP (HR & Consulting) and Program Director - Citibank Social Innovation Lab SIIC of IIT KanpurTarun, in his current role as Senior Vice President (HR & Consulting) and Program Director – Citibank Social Innovation Lab, is responsible for growing and strengthening the startup ecosystem at IIT Kanpur and beyond and support startups in their growth journey. He also heads corporate communication, strategic partnerships, and FIRST Academy that offers programs in entrepreneurship and innovation. He has led several businesses and organizational initiatives of excellence in the industries with organizations such as Tata Chemicals, ZenSar Technologies, IIM Lucknow, and IIT Kanpur, to name a few.
• He has consulted with large corporations such as Tata Motors, ICICI Bank, Apollo Tyres, Capita
& Axa, and many SMEs and Startups. He has been able to help some of the Startups and MSMEs achieve tremendous growth over the years. He has been an assessor for TBEM (Tata Business Excellence Model) based on the organizational excellence framework Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award established by the US Congress.
• He has successfully led mega initiatives and multiple programs in the markets and has surpassed targets, beating deadlines improving client engagement, customer satisfaction, and other stakeholder expectations.
• He has extensive exposure as an executive coach, facilitator in national-level leadership & management development programs, strategy meets, and team building for senior leaders from different organizations. He has been one of the identified management talents and has received Best Faculty/ Trainer Awards.
Ms. Sirisha Voruganti
Managing Director of JP Morgan ChaseMs. Sirisha Voruganti Leads Architecture, Data and Digital Technology for Consumer & Community Banking (CCB) at JPMorgan Chase and is based out of India.
She brings 29+ years of global executive experience spanning research labs, product engineering, strategy, mergers and acquisitions, business development and consulting across public and private sectors. Most recently, she was the Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Architecture and Shared Services for MasterCard and led Mastercard India. She was the First Group Executive Leader in Technology for MasterCard outside the U.S.
Prior to MasterCard, she worked for Tech Mahindra Limited as a Distinguished Fellow and Senior Vice President and Head of Innovation, where she was awarded the Mahindra Innovation Award five years in a row, two National Telecom Awards, The Indian Express Group award for Innovation and many more. She started her career as a scientist with the Defense labs.
Mr. Tamal Mukherjee
Founder & CEO of Little LaureatesTamal Mukherjee, is a successful edupreneur and Director of Little Laureates a forerunner in the Pre-school education space for children aged between 3-6 years embracing: Nursery, Junior KG, Senior KG with specially-crafted pedagogy through it’s largest self owned Pre-school chain in Eastern India.
Recipient of umpteen awards and accolades for outstanding and meritorious services in the field of Montessori-education, Shri Tamal Mukherjee initiated his entrepreneurial venture in 2012 post a fulfilling career with financial giants like UTI Securities, setting out from his place of stay in Rishra, a district town around 30km from Kolkata and having since extended operations to Kolkata where his corporate headquarter is located spreading wings all across West Bengal, North Eastern Region and beyond.
He has been identified as a Pre-school Educator with a difference and distinction, as a visionary leader has developed India’s first Digital Virtual Pre-school with a grant from CDC, govt. of UK to provide uninterrupted Pre-school Education to the mass in the awake of COVID 19 pandemic .
Ashishkumar Chauhan
MD & CEO of BSEAshish, a technocrat from IIT and IIM, currently works as the MD and CEO of BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange), with market capitalization of listed companies more than US$ 3 trillion.
At BSE since 2009, Ashish helped it become the fastest exchange in the world with 6 microseconds response time, completed its IPO, revived its revenues, introduced mobile stock trading to India, diversified in areas such as currency, commodities and equity derivatives, SME, start-ups, Mutual fund distribution, IPO/bond distribution, insurance distribution, agri spot market, power trading, and international exchange at GIFT city etc.
Ashish acted as the CEO of IPL cricket team Mumbai Indians in its formative years and worked as the President and CIO of Reliance group from years 2000 to 2009 in the field of IT, e-commerce,
public relations, media, telecom, sports, organised retail, IPO, petrochemicals, refining, oil and gas etc.
Ashish is one of the founders of at NSE (National stock exchange) and is considered the father of modern financial derivatives in India due to his work there from 1993-2000. He is also the creator of Nifty index and was in charge of creating the first screen-based trading. He started his career as a banker with IDBI.
Ashish is a serial entrepreneur. He is considered amongst the foremost experts in the fields of fintech, market microstructure, transaction processing, corporate governance, finance, regulatory policies, business, technology, cricket, and Indian social issues. He has spoken at conferences organised by UN, WEF, WFE, UNCTAD, OECD, Commonwealth etc. He has been a part of the policy committees of Ministry of finance, Ministry of MSME, CBDT, RBI, SEBI etc. He also headed the South Asia Federation of Exchanges (SAFE), consisting of 20 plus exchanges.
He has won several prestigious Indian and international awards over last 3 decades including Mumbai Ratna, Digital Icon of the Year, Asian Banker, Top 50 CIOs in the world etc. He serves on the board of prestigious Indian universities including IIMs, AJNIFM, NITs, NIITs etc amongst his many social activities. He is also acting as the Chancellor of University of Allahabad, UP, India, one of the nationally important universities and the oldest Universities in Asia set up in 1887. He is a distinguished visiting faculty at Ryerson University in Toronto and Honorary Professor at Nottingham University Business School.
He has co-authored a book titled on BSE ‘A temple of wealth creation’. A book titled ‘Sthithpragya - the process of maintaining equilibrium’ has been written on his life journey.
Shri K. LAKSHMINARAYANAN
IT Minister at UT of PuducherryShri. K. LAKSHMINARAYANAN
Portfolio
• Public Works
• Tourism and Civil Aviation
• Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare
• Law
• Information Technology
• Stationery and Printing.
S M ROUNAQUE MUSTAFA
CEO (IIML-In c u b a t o r ) , I I M L u c k n o w of INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT LUCKNOWMustafa is passionate entrepreneur development and business incub years experience of promoting startups in India and neighboring count
He had been instrumental in setting up 5 Govt. approved Technolog Mentored 500+ startups and trained 5,000+ aspiring entrepreneurs. H than 250 crores so far and helped startups for raising SEED to Seri CVCs. He has worked on PPP program of many national and promotion of SMEs and startups such as UNDP, InfoDev, NBIA, N Martin, Indo US S&T Forum, DC-MSME, BIRAC, DeiTY, TePP, AP
He is currently working on Open innovation & Corporate Venturing to transform the startup ecosystem in India and advising many Indian PSUs and corporates such as HPCL, ONGC, GAIL, BHEL, NFL etc. for launching its corporate venture fund for promoting innovations & startups. He is highly networked with Investors community and posses great PR skill.
He did Master in Business Administration from India and Certificate on Entrepreneurship from University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has also published more than 10 research & white papers on innovation, entrepreneurship in national journals of repute. He speaks at conferences and delivers lectures in IIMs and IITs.
He is also winner of “Best Incubator Manager Award” from DST, Govt. of India.
Ram Mohan Mishra
Executive Chairman at Meghalaya State Investment Promotion BoardMr. Ram Manohar Mishra, Additional Secretary to the Government of India and Development Commissioner for the Ministry of MSME has taken over the additional Charge of Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD), NSIC. Shri Ram Mohan Mishra works on comprehensive policy making for the SME sector in India.
He has over 30 years of experience as an Indian Administrative Service officer having worked in the field of General Administration, Mines and Minerals, Programme Implementation, Planning, Banking and Institutional Finance, Revenue, Environment & Forests, Water Resources, Commerce & Industry, Personnel Management, Home Affairs, Land Revenue, etc.
He is a Law Graduate, Masters in Geography and has studied Public Finance at Maxwell School of Syracuse University.
He has been CEO of a Government company working for promoting and facilitating inclusive growth, entrepreneurship development, climate change adaptation and sustainable development.
Ajit Singh Pal
Minister of State for IT & Electronics at State of Uttar PradeshAjit Singh Pal is Minister of State for IT and Electronics in the Government of Uttar Pradesh. He is member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Sikandra assembly constituency of Kanpur Dehat district.
He is a B.Tech, M.Tech and MBA. A Chemical Engineer turned Politician, Ajit Singh Pal defeated Samajwadi party candidate Seema Sachan by nearly 11,000 votes in the Sikandra Assembly by-election in Kanpur (Rural) district.
Mr. Karthik Prabhakar
Partner at Chiratae Ventures
Anirudh Reddy
Co-Founder and CEO of einsiteAnirudh (Co-Founder and CEO) is a graduate of Stanford University, with an experience of working at the Project Controls Department of global construction giant Bechtel Corp, and currently runs the day-to-day operations at Einsite.
Sridhar Seshadri
Co-founder & CEO of SpotflockSridhar Seshadri is the co-founder & CEO of Spotflock - an AI product company located out of India and the US.
In his previous corporate role as Director of Technology & Product at CognitiveScale Inc, a 500 Million Dollar company funded by Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, IBM, and Norwest Venture Partners, he led AI product development for the global market in verticals of Health Care, Retail & Commerce, Financial Services.
He is a UT Austin & BITS, Pilani Alumnus. He was a founding team member of Facebook India, built and led the Product Insights, Advanced Analytics & AI global teams at EA Sports from the ground up, and was the recipient of The CEO’s EA Spotlight Award For Driving Innovation.
His experience covers Technology, Management, and Product development leveraging AI,Social, Mobile, & Cloud.